26 May 2011

I can't believe I bought another tea pot

Actually, I can. I'd seen it in a charity shop the week before, picked it up and told myself firmly that I really did not need another tea pot even if it did have faded gold edging and a sort of marbling effect on the top and anyway it's meant to be "one in, one out" in our house. Then I went back a week later and it was a pound cheaper. So I had it. And the real truth is that I dream of becoming Mrs Wobble the Waitress and turning my front room into a cafe and having people in to drink tea and eat cake in a very civilised way. It's the same reason why the cellar is full of carefully packed cake stands and tea sets, why I buy tea cosies and books on how to knit them, even though I never do, and aprons. I'm very partial to a proper apron.

I had a friend with a similar dream and an impressive collection of little milk jugs and sugar bowls. She ended up opening a lingerie shop. I like your "One in, one out" approach. Wonder if it would work here?

I shouldn't worry about your 'collection', it sounds much like my own. I have aprons for every occasion, including gardening (they get demoted to that)I also have the cake stands, the teasets, melamine, Tupperware... feeling better now? In fact it's given me an idea...

I've never believed that one can have too much of anything fabulous . Anyway , you were just rescuing it . I rescue things all the time . Stacks of things . I have to save untold numbers of buttons , napkins , 50s children's handkerchiefs , virtually empty wooden reels of thread , saucers .....

I know just what you mean about all the books with teacosy patterns which you don't ever find the time to knit; I recently found myself thinking that what I want this year in August, is the time and space to knit the placemats in a 1940s book entitled "practical knitting."

Placemats. When would I ever even use them? I usually eat my beans on toast in front of my computer, whilst dealing with email in the other hand. Perhaps if I knit the placemats this would all change...